Jorge Cavelier
Bogotá, Colombia, december 1953.
After a brief foray into architecture and a year of painting at the University of New York, Jorge Cavelier went to Florence, Italy, where at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, he graduated in painting in 1982._cc781905-5cde- 3194-bb3b-136bad5cf58d_
Back in Colombia in the same year he founded a studio for artists in Bogotá, “Trazo”. There he taught painting and drawing techniques until 1987. Since 1988 he has worked in his private studio on the outskirts of Bogota. From that place he was kidnapped by the Colombian terrorist group FARC in 1999.
Released in 2000 he emigrated to the United States where he was granted citizenship for his extraordinary skills as an artist. For the past 14 years, Cavelier has lived and worked in Key Biscayne, Florida, in the United States of America.
Jorge Cavelier has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions since 1983 in Bogotà and Santa Marta, Colombia; in New York and South Hampton, NY, Talahassee and Miami, FL., Chicago, IL., e Atlanta, GA in the United States of America. Also in Quito, Ecuador; Lima, Peru; in Buenos Aires, Argentina; in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; in Montevideo, Uruguay; in Caracas, Venezuela; Seravezza, Florence, Milan and Rome in Italy; in Tokyo, Japan; in Pretoria, South Africa and Paris, France.
His first series of sculptures was created in Miami in 2007, and exhibited in Bogota, Colombia in 2008, in New York, NY in 2011, in Panama in 2013.
Today he works on a series of sculptures, silk paintings and oil paintings for the “Sacred Lakes” project, which will be exhibited in public and private spaces in the United States, Spain and Colombia.
Among his most recent exhibitions: "The spiritual in art", produced and curated by "Aluna Art Foundation" in downtown Miami, the Art en Capital event in "Comparaisons" at the Grand Palais in Paris and River Art Fair in Miami Miami, Florida.